Daylight Savings Time

Arthur David Olson ado at elsie.UUCP
Tue Dec 24 07:27:15 AEST 1985


> > If there is a computable algorithm, it can be expressed on the computer in
> > some simple form, even if only via numerical methods.
> 
> But the problem is that it cannot always be expressed in any algorithm.
> On Unix it currently is expressed in an algorithm, and that is going to
> screw people if Congress changes the rules.

I can see it now. . ."/etc/dsttab".  :-)
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